Reality Check

We’ve seen several school shootings over the past few years. We’ve seen several murderers walk into restaurants, colleges, high schools, US Postal Offices and businesses — including CNN a couple of weeks back, who used guns to kill one, two, ten, twenty or thirty-something people.

We have watched as several countries around the world have suffered from similar incidents, including Australia (Port Arthur, 1996, 35 lives, 37 wounded), Scotland (Dunblane, 1986, 16 children, 1 adult including the attacker) and Canada (Montréal Massacre of December 6, 1989, 14 women killed and another13 students wounded) ; we have seen places like Somilia, where literally millions have been hacked to death with machetes — because the murderers lacked guns.

In South Africa, guns have been banned.
In Canada, guns have been banned.
In the UK in general, guns have been banned.
In Australia guns have been banned.
In Germany, in 1934, guns were banned — at least to most people who weren’t German. Mostly Jews.
In Japan, guns were banned long ago.

Now, we have this upheaval in the “force”. We, Americans are standing by to criticism outside of the United States about our own gun laws. We have our own Leftist faction in America, Democrats in a Democratically controlled Congress, and many states which are so full of liberals you can’t get one more in the state, calling for “tougher gun controls”.

In fact, I submit that “gun control” people are after one thing. CONTROL. They want to take your guns for one thing, so they can be more powerful than you.

Folks… let me say this. If they want to take your guns in America, they want to be able to control YOU. Don’t give in like these other countries have done. Guns aren’t the evil here. There is evil in PEOPLE. People like Cho at V-Tech. People like McVey. People like Saddam. People like Ahamadinajad. Those people want America to give up their guns.

I will say right now, I will not, I will never give mine up. Nor will millions of other Americans. The Second Amendment to our Constitution was put in place for one thing. To prevent this very thing, to prevent people from taking our Freedom of speech, the Founding Fathers placed into our Constitution the one thing to prevent a tyrannical government from remaining in charge.

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So far, I’ve remained silent on this, choosing instead to watch. For the most part, when one sits back and watches horrors happen, they become desensitized to the evil around them.

Several important aspects of the murders at Virginia Tech come to mind.

The first is that the young man that did this was either deranged completely, or he did this out of some sick sense of terrorism. I choose to believe the latter. No matter what anyone tells me from here on out, any human being that walks into a place with guns a’blazin’ is a damned terrorist. Period. People need to stop associating the word “terrorism” ONLY with Islam.

The second thing coming to mind is that this guy WAS a believer in Islam… making it real, hard core terrorism. His “alias” or whatever you want to call it, tattooed on his arm was “Ismale Ax” (not, as some previously reported, “Ismail Ax”. In examining this, I believe it is his “Islamic Name” which he chose sometime earlier.

The next thing that comes to mind is that over the course of a couple of weeks there were signs of something about to happen and few people did anything at all. Bomb threats I believe were a test of the security on the campus. If *I* were going to do something like this, I would rigorously test security. Terrorists do these things. Folks, we need to start thinking like terrorists to understand them.

Another thing that bugs me, is aside from the one man, a professor who survived the German Holocaust, no one else really seems to have done much to defend themselves.

I’m not trying to second guess what people did in that situation, but certainly everyone when confronted with their mortality choses to do SOMETHING to either A) Meet their maker, B) Fights for life, C) Runs. I understand that some people fled. But only one man, a 70-something year old, threw himself in front of the murderer yelling for people to flee. He’s a hero in my book, and someone that campus should be proud of.

Ladies and gentlemen, 32 people died on that campus, because 1) Guns are banned from the campus — and thus only the criminal had guns. 2) No one chose to fight. Not one person picked up a desk or chair and threw it at the murderer, at least this has not been reported.

Have we gotten so….timid as Americans? Have we all found that the best way to go is to stand there, or sit there and just DIE?

What is it we’re teaching our children? I KNOW what they tried to teach MINE in public schools. Fighting is wrong. Even if someone else hits you, you don’t hit back. That’s not what I say.

I say, if someone throws the first punch, you take them OUT. If someone walks into your school shooting, someone on that campus BETTER be armed. And no, I don’t mean the COPS. I mean teachers, I mean students.

Sure, there are those you can’t arm, because they won’t. But there are probably one or two in each classroom that would. I think professors and students alike ought to be carrying concealed weapons.

This whole thing would have been prevented.

Don’t give me this nonsense that “more guns causes more problems”. This clown got his guns legally, and even if he hadn’t and wanted to continue this, he’d have gotten them ILLEGALLY.

The fact is, that VA lawmakers let a bill to allow students to carry die on the floor.

There’s your second group of criminals. Lawmakers who ban guns without understanding that guns can protect as well has harm and those who need protecting are disallowed BY LAW to carry guns, whereas criminals are going to do it with, or without laws.

The V-Tech murders was Terrorism, plain and simple.

Prayers for the families of the victims.

Update: Why would someone take the time to file numbers off of weapons, and still keep the receipt around?

Why is there talk of a second person? What if there were a second person? (What if this guy was set up? Tell me, has ANYONE come forward and actually identified this guy as the shooter YET? I’ve heard that they were looking for a white male, with greasy hair, pickup truck that had farm plates…..)

Questions. Questions.

Update: 16:48 MDT: Fox News on Brit Hume is ALSO making references to “Islam” in association with the name. So, I’m still waiting on one of my readers to give me some proof that this name is connected to a “video game” (Please see the comments below).

I’m also waiting on one of the readers to apologize to me for his remarks. I don’t see that happening, but it’s nice to hope that Leftists will somehow see the error of their ways and admit to them. But, hell even Bill Clinton is trying to get back in the White House.

Update: NBC received a multimedia package of video and other such materials from the murderer. Looks like I was wrong on one thing at least, it appears that he acted alone for sure. However, he did plan this for several days like I thought. It appears that at the very least seven or eight days of preparation went into the video material. He rails against Christianity… over and over, and he mailed the package in between the first two killings and his later rampage.

This “manifesto” indicates just how delusional he was.

He placed 23 video clips into his package. Included appeared to be several he made in between killing the first two people, then went back to his computer and recorded some more video. He apparently changed, and added a vest with ammo (people were calling it a bulletproof vest, but it appears to be nothing more than a cloth ammo belt).

For the most part, South Koreans who come to America are either Christians, or they convert to Christianity. This young man rails against Christianity. Wonder what religion he is now? I really do? I wonder if we will ever find out?

You know, we have had a dozen or more incidents in this country since 9-11 occurred. In many of these incidents the perps were muslims, and yet, authorities in the incidents claim “no connection to terrorism”. In my initial post, I stated that we need to get away from “connecting” Islam and Terrorism. A poster her basically attacked me thinking I was connecting the two (I wasn’t then). But, now, I am afraid that he has put his “manifesto” out, and he has made comments against Christianity. He has used the name “Ismail” or “Ismale” Ax. What do those names mean? We might never know, because authorities in this country REFUSE to connect terrorist acts, like the one that occurred in Seattle at the Jewish Center (for example) with Islam… Even THOUGH that particular perp was indeed a Muslim.

Another such incident was the man who ran over several people in an SUV over the course of a couple of hours, killing one or two of them. His name? This dirtbag’s name is Omeed Aziz Popal. At first the media and authorities tried to hide his name. Then it was brought out. First and last name at first, then a blogger got his middle and broke it. The media had no choice. Guess what else? He was from Afghanistan. Guess what else? He was a MUSLIM. Oh, GUESS what else? He said the following:

“Everyone needs to be killed,'’ Omeed Aziz Popal calmly told officers as he sat in the back of a police car after a hit-and-run rampage that left one person dead in Fremont and 19 injured in San Francisco.

“I planned to kill those people I ran over last night — they needed to be killed,'’ Popal said at one point.

No, NO, no Terrorism THERE huh? Was there a connection between Islam and Terrorism THERE? You betcha there was.

In the case of the shooter at Va-Tech, there’s little information to indicate he was associated in any way with Islam. On the other hand, there is plenty of reason to speculate at this point, and at this point, I plan on speculating all I want — contrary to what some posters have already told me privately, and publicly. I make no apologies for it either.

UPDATE: ONE MORE. Little Green Footballs is CONFIRMING my SUSPICIONS, as is FOX News on Hannity and Colms.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25171&only&rsssmall

Update: 19 April 2007, Well, well, well… let me see here, right from MSNBC…. READ THIS:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18187368/

Their titles are varied and hard to match with their content: “all of You”, “am al qaeda”, “anti terror”, “as time appr”, “blood of inno”, “congrad”, “could b victim.” The rambling comments are those of an angry young man who felt persecuted, who felt that the world is against him, who felt he was a victim of personal terrorism.

But five of them are called, “end”, “end 1”, “end 2”, “end car”, and “end some life.” And each of those appears to be among the last recorded, perhaps between the shootings.

Also, here’s another piece of evidence…. You all wanted to know why I thought his name might be connect somehow with Islam. Well, it was a gut-feeling, and I’ve learned to go with my gut on these things. Oh, and for the guy who said “the experts” — well, dude, you’re wrong. I work with those folks. Here’s another piece from the news:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070419/tts-uk-crime-usa-shooting-korea-ca02f96_1.html

“They bought the tiny shop with the money my son-in-law made in Saudi Arabia before he got married,” Kim said.

Thus you have some real, hard evidence now for connections with Islam.

UPDATE: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=1330

Well, this comes direct from England… LOL. So, I’m not so “sick” as some of you think.